BarberSaint

The bit in bold is the bit I like.

Why are your posts always so aggressive? A simple “I’m not sure I agree with you there” would be much more pleasant than “Bollocks!” I have visions of you sat there with a Stone Island double badger and a black Nike baseball cap. XL bully, on your lap, cracked phone screen in your hand, slurping tea through missing teeth from a Sports Direct mug. I may be wrong of course, that’s just the way your posts come across. Bollocks. I have no idea what stone badger and the like are but they sound quite 'iffy'. I thought I'd add my view, as above and concur with said 'bollocks-maker' on this occasion as it's clearly been the case from reading this thread over the last few days that the current discussion/debate/gossip around a sale is due to the throwaway comment that two people who heard it didn't pick up on which is unusual in the context. The other point might be right but we've no source for it nor have we anything that indicates that that has been in anyone's mind when rambling on about sales of football clubs whereas we do have a lot tying this (said rambling aka posting) into that radio show that's now videoed and whatnot.

We'll draw against Arsenal with Kamaldeen running riot and everyone expecting him to tear up the league below.

We want them to go up to reduce the competition. The circus will be strong as will the Brummies. Ipswich will be best-placed to go straight up and Leicester may be if they aren't hit financially/with a points deduction or transfer embargo. We should easily make the play-offs. Most of the teams left behind look poor now.

I don't believe anyone can be that sensible until they've tasted the snake oil. Shall we drive him up there for you?

Above us.

I think we should look at anything we get from him as a bonus. And offset that against the cost.

Last chance at Leicester for a point. Don't see Man City doing anything other than demolishing us, Everton's last game will be a horror show and even Arsenal on the last day are likely to want to win. So if we take nothing next week we'll have the most losses in a season gong as well as all the others. Thanks, SR.

Davis is crap. Only the likes of Sheff Utd would sign him.

Correct. These comments were made at the beginning of the season by Martin when he expressed how happy he was at the transfer business. You can compare that with RH whose face told you all you needed to know when asked about his request for a striker at the fans' forum.

Euros or pounds?

And dare I say even more their left back actually looks good, too.

I've decided the last ginger manager we had was great.

Only things I'd say are, many would have missed so that's that. But of course he does play at that level so that amount of time is probably 5 seconds to those who never have or will make it to his level. 50/50.

No.

I disliked it. And only my vote counts.

He'll do well against our midfield. Be interested in the match up between him and small bone.

1/ Leave and; 2/ Go

... was it difficult to save?

I thought that too. He's got to get it at some point and as Potter's playing him at least then there's a chance. We will also get to be involved with another record so can we get Cap'n Jack and Bedders to give away a lot of cheap free kicks in JWP territory?

Nonsense. By this 'reasoning', the following is true: "Jack Stephens fucked up. He ball-watched, lost concentration, and lost his man many times. They scored." But, according to you the fact that it's happened a number of times is irrelevant; next time will be 'different'. Only in your mind, I would suggest.

You mistyped. Fixed it for you.

Waiting ....

Mmmm. That's illogical. Once upon a time there was a horse. My father is a unicorn so fairies exist is your answer. If we talk about e.g. Bolton, they ended up losing money because of poor decisions. Some of that was undoubtedly due to poor recruitment which is a large cost and which ultimately leads to costs becoming difficult/impossible to manage. That we have avoided doing so thus far is in part because the way football is managed now is different, in part because we did manage to 'make' money by selling some players and are likely to do so again and because we have richer (possibly, no-one knows and/or knows where the money - most of it being 'paper money', anyway - comes from), because there are lots of fun 'accounting practices' on the go and rules that aren't fit for purpose, partly because we're only three years into SR's tenure and we did start off 'stable' (but skint) and so on. In other industries, had we bought a few million Sinclair C5s at £100,000 each and been convinced we could get a 250% mark-up on them we would have gone bust. Is Edozie good enough to be a C5? Onuachu? Archer? I suspect accounting practices will reduce any 'losses'. The thing you get from reading this forum is that proper research and applied knowledge on thought is severely lacking in places, at times. Not necessarily with the poster, per se, but you do see posts from people who have no knowledge, yet opine from a degree of certainty of them being so knowledgeable. Some don't. Dare I say, MLG does at least attempt to look for information and then use it. As for Parsons, he's a businessman with a business background. In today's world that probably means he knows fuck all and has a load of soundbites to sell to the unknowing while Martin peddles his snake-oil round the corner. So in some respects, notwithstanding FF's views above and as an historian he does pay heed to facts but I get the impression might be susceptible to a sound-bite despite his avowed cynicism, he probably has nothing to add that any other mid-level business person would i.e. he effectively follows a script and is stupid, because most business people actually are - what they do to succeed is be committed and spot opportunities (assuming they're entrepreneurial) so nothing to add at all but that's not a problem per se; he doesn't have to be a 'football person' and 'football' is now nothing but business. So you could argue that he's actually a good appointment. As for him eating humble pie after relegation (after promotion after relegation) well.... The actual point of this, rather than just unpicking others' posts, is to state that 'Yes', the ownership i.e. SR are useless and we should be rid of them. As football is a product and becoming very Americanised, however, we are going nowhere as is the industry, as is the sport. I'd suggest that if you like football try non-league/lower leagues or accept your place in the established order and go along and clap, regardless. And be grateful for survival. When I put it that way, Martin Semmens appears a visionary.

Which, if you look at it, is quite common in that league.